Reap What You Sow

This letter to the editor "Clinton's  bad Decisions.." is indicative of the "con" about Hillary Clinton that goes on and on: These are the facts:

The conservatives have been conspiring against the Clintons for over thirty years for one reason; Bill Clinton broke the Reagan revolution. President Reagan gave cons hope that a sea change had occurred in American politics. He won two Presidencies and his hand picked successor, George H.W.  Bush, won election as a "bell-weather" of a more conservative America. Then the economy happened and the "trickle down" economics really did wind up being the "voodoo economics" that George H.W.  Bush warned about. And the Republicans lost the White House that they figured they had for a generation.

2. So, in reaction, the conservative conspiracy (and there is such a thing) embarked from day one on a campaign to discredit, embarrass and destroy the Democratic Party and Bill Clinton. Now Clinton provided some ammunition in one area, philandering. But American politics up until that point had left politician's private lives alone. A glaring example was Reagan himself, whose Alzheimers was covered up the last two years in office, as his wife basically ran the country. The Democrats left it alone when a scandal that the President was incompetent would have adversely affected Republican chances to hold on to the White House; and as it turned out, that is exactly what happened. 

3. So one after another unfounded allegations came forth: Whitewater: whiff; Foster suicide whiff; Travel gate whiff. And finally the old standbye, Bill's stupid habit of messing around, they nearly hit a home run. However, remember there was an impeachment but no conviction; and Bill finished out his term at all time high popularity levels. 

4. So they turned on Hilarie knowing she might try to someday run.

And the con continues. None of these allegations in this hate piece are true. Benghazi? Really, 15 investigations, millions of dollars spent and a whiff? And emails, really...really...Mrs. Clinton is charged with committing a crime when nothing is there, she is pillared for not following policy regarding emails that was not in effect when she was Secretary of State.

In short, the forces of the right whiff and whiff and whiff. 

Meanwhile in an insanity beyond measure, the cons decided to form a tea party in reaction to, horror of horrors, a BlACK PRESIDENT! And that leads us to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, two candidates that are ripping the Republican Party apart.

The reason for this is not hard to figure out: when you run a political party based on conspiracies and got you politics, eventually it will turn to the dark side. And that is exactly what has happened. You REAP WHAT YOU SOW!

It's the Establishment's Fault

Oh, bullshit...That's right bullshit.  All this talk about the establishment and the reaction to Washington is double speak because we REALLY are fighting mad because people of color are in positions of power more and more; AND the gays are taking over the world.

All this talk about the establishment is baloney.  The reason for the anger is race and sex!

People on the right are upset because they feel threatened by the increasing diversification of America.  And they support a billionaire who represents privilege and the 'establishment' more than anyone?  And when you point out this contradiction the scream, "We don't care, we don't care, we believe the way we want to believe!"

SHAME ON YOU.  SHAME ON YOU.  In the 1930s and 40s America was more racist than it is now.  But people really got hurt, not faux hurt, by the depression and the war and pulled together for the common good.  You know sacrificed and stopped belly aching and trusted the New Deal that saved our ass.

People on the left are upset with Wall Street, but have no problem with their pension funds and investments that are with Wall Street.  They too talk the talk, but the walk is it is all Washington's fault.   This mess we caused!

It is not all Washington's fault.  WE are the problem.  We are lazy, don't read, let media inform us with literally no effort to do anything about it.  Let's take Fox News and Right Wing radio for a second.  Millions use that as their source of news, period.  And Fox, licensed as an entertainment network by the way, works overtime to create the anger in the populace.  Fox News, owned by a multi of-billionaire, who Hates YOU!

That's right, he hates you!  The right has an establishment, Trump is one of them, and they literally are playing all of you like toys!

And we, the American public, refuse to accept reality:  1.  The climate is changing as we are beginning to suffer from it.  2.   We continue our insane infatuation with cars and trucks refusing to move back to trains.  3.  We refuse to acknowledge that we are a collection of communities, but go to our houses with our guns and shut the world out.  Then we react with anger, like spoiled children, EXPECTING THE SAME ESTABLISHMENT THAT HAS SCREWED US TO ALL OF A SUDDEN HELP US?  Trump is a billionaire for Christ's sake!  4.  And we vote for conservatives who lie to us, swindle us, cut programs for us and our children and get rich on our stupidity.  If Governor Snyder could have done the swindle with the water in Flint, potentially killing hundreds, without a qualm, then what do you think he will do for you?  He hates middle class and poor people...they all do!

It used to be we, the middle and lower class, at least had a healthy skepticism for the rich.  And their sometimes were retributions.  The rich lived in gated communities and didn't travel much during the Depression..because there were some who tried to literally kill them.  And they were punished.  The marginal tax rate was 90% for a long time. Only when Reagan came along was it change...and we lost our way, forgetting who the real enemy is.  

Does this mean we vote Democratic blindly.  Of course not.  But you will find the Democratic Party is not the party of your parents.  It has become much more inclusive.  And you cannot be a democrat unless you accept that, which means you finally come to grips with the sickness that has afflicted this nation for centuries:  white supremacy.  The Republican Party is now the party of white supremacy.  

That is what this is all about!

If you can look in your hearts and realized THIS is the core of your anger, and realize their are strong forces that have for years been USING that to manipulate you, we all will be better off.

The problem isn't  Trump or even Clinton....the problem is US!

The Con of "Both Are To Blame"

Here we go again...the old conservative sop, "Both sides are to blame for the political mess we are in".

In President Obama's Inaugeral I remember( the establishment press does not)  him stressing (as he did in the first Inaugeral) that we were one nation, not blue not red, but one people.  

He has been criticized by many pundits for being naive by reaching across the aisle.  

This article lists only one accomplishment by Democrats that showed a willingness to help the middle class, a big on:  The ACA.

But it was passed with NO Republican support, none.  The single payer didn't have a chance because the Deomcratically controlled "Blue Dog" democrats refused to give the votes to pass it. The Democratic Party was debating itself.   The Republicans were united in complete opposition, reflecting that fact they are bought and paid for by the medical oligarchy.

Remember Scott Brown?  That made the Senate impossible for single payer or anything else progressive for that matter. And only through a legislative maneuver was the ACA saved and passed, in a weakened form, because Scott Brown was the 41st vote, that gave the Republicans a fillibuster that would have killed the ACA.  

And who lost?  The middle class.  Who remembers this? Nobody.  The only reason I remember is the Master in Government and I was trained to remember stuff like this.  

In this article, the conservative author lists several Republican efforts that hurt the middle class and one from the Democrats.  But both sides are equally to blame?

This is the con and it has been planned and is being executed by Trump, Cruz, et al.  It has been planned by the establishment of the Republican Party.  The establishment candidates that are left in the Republican field will not condemn Trump even after his rhetoric caused violence and injury in Chicago.  They won't because THEY ARE IN ON IT!

Republicans expect the public to forget that THEY have blocked the Democratic agenda for the past eight years.  The Recession recovery was cut by nearly half by Republican filibusters in the Senate, that is the core of the misery of the middle class in this country right now.  But Republicans in their cynical way know Americans have notorious short memories, except when they are riled up by a demogogue (enter Trump).  They know that anger works especially stupid uneducated anger.  Never mind history..just feed them red meat.

The Republican Party is in on this...all of it!

So now they depict themselves as champions of the maligned middle class?    

Cons like this author trump out bullshit that everybody is to blame for Trump, when the REPUBLICAN PARTY IS TO BLAME FOR TRUMP. And who is behind the Republican Party who is really bankrolling them?  The corporate plutocrats who quite simply are trying to completely take over the country!  

The conservative liar author makes the amazing statement that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee of the Democrats has been "wounded and weakened" because allegedly she has not paid attention to the middle class.

Bullshit.  Mrs. Clinton (why do we call her by her first name and call the male candidates by their last) has been wounded by a campaign attacking her honestly over a meaningless email server and a Benghazi attack that has been investigated 15 times with no result other than the lies the Republican Party has propagated.

The server I have written about here before.  It is a non issue that the Republican Party is pushing to weaken her.  They only seek to weaken her because she is running for President and is a champion of the middle class!

And it is now both Parties faults?  Really?  The Democratic Party passed voter suppression laws in the south and north that have succeeded in repressing minoritity and middle class voters?  The Democratic Party has fueled the anger in the nation by name calling of minorities and immigrants and attacking with big mony every progressive effort with millions of dollars?  What party has done this?  

READ for Christ's sake READ.  Remember!  

I think it is interesting that Republican efforts to steal this country are based on short therm memory ability from their voter base who are all in the dementia ridden 60 and 70s age group.  

I think they sometimes plan their strategy on the fact that many of us CAN"T remember!

The Republican Party will own the chaos that will ensue if a Republican wins the presidency.  There will be a civil war eventually because once the middle class figures out they are getting screwed violence will be the order of the day.

And Trump will start WWIII by accident, since he is an idiot.

This is NOT both sides share the blame...the blame is clearly on the damnable Republican Party!

Don't be So Glib!

Ok, take a deep breath and read...that's right google Eisenhower, or post World War II economy.  You will see the obvious, the United States was the ONLY country on earth that emerged from WWII with its economy intact.  No American city was bombed, our casualty rate was the lowest of any of the combatants; while ghastly still way lower.  25 million Russians died, 17 million Germans.  Japan was on its back, with atomic fallout sprinkling down into its ruins.

And America, why we manufactured everything.  We were the world's recovery and our economy boomed.  And we paid for WWII partially with a high tax rate on the rich, plus a booming economy that drove tax proceeds through the roof.

And that was Eisenhower's doing.  Bullshit...it was the world's recovery and America was the engine, and you have to count Canada and Mexico too.

If you don't believe me look it up, Google post war Germany or Russia.

Americans are famously xenophobic and isolationistic.  We sit behind two vast oceans and watch the rest of the world pass by.  We almost waited too long in 1941, almost lost the whole thing.

But WE did not prosper because of US perfection, we prospered (and still do) by our manufacturing sector being untouched by war, being left alone with government controls, to do what it does best; invent and make things in large quantities.  

So don't be so damn glib, we have been lucky...

Ask Alabama in 1866...or Georgia...how is it to be bombed and occupied?   Good for golf?  

READ HISTORY!